Wellness

Enhance the structural integrity of your body.

Wellness at Moss

As professionals the world over have come to recognise, there are obvious and important symmetries between Pilates and healthcare therapies of all kinds. It’s widely used to treat an ever-increasing range of issues from back conditions to orthopaedic injuries, Parkinson’s to post-surgery rehabilitation.

As more people than ever find themselves prone to injuries and health problems relating to the workplace, Pilates wellness couldn’t be more relevant.

Find out how our unique method of Pilates can help your staff dramatically improve how their bodies feel and move, as well as their levels of stress and overall wellness.

Our experts are on call!

What We Offer

Marie Cartwright

Sports & Remedial Massage

Marie qualified in 2005 and has over 11 years experience in sports therapy. Her understanding of injuries – whether sporting or occupational – is pretty sharp as she has worked extensively with athletes from a variety of sports, including running, triathlon and football. She also has broad experience treating people from non-sporting backgrounds for back conditions or other postural issues.

Having been a competitive athlete who still races for her own pleasure, Marie can relate very well with frustration caused by injuries. Never short of embracing a fresh challenge, Marie is currently studying for an MSc in Sports Psychology, which gives an extra edge to her existing skills. True to her creative and active self, she has produced her own sporting challenge for 2016, really pushing her fitness to the limit by aiming to compete in 40 races this year as she turns 40.

A crucial part of Marie’s work is establishing the root cause and muscle groups affected by injuries, identifying imbalances, providing sports massage and assisting with rehabilitation and future injury prevention. Marie strongly believes that massage is a necessity, not a luxury and, as such, her technique often involves a tailored approach, producing an individual and personal program of treatment, which also sometimes include specific exercises and stretching techniques.

Charlotte Crowther

Reflexology and Grinberg Method

Charlotte trained at the Oxford School of Reflexology and Grinberg Method International School. Her comprehensive and straightforward approach has delivered a highly diversified client base from young to old, male to female, active to inactive and everyone else in-between. Be it for sports injuries, insomnia, digestive complaints, chronic back pain, tension, stress or the need for greater wellbeing.

She teaches an approach to natural healthcare, personal development and self-management to enable you to improve your health, wellbeing and performance.

Richard Dickson

Pilates Movement Myofascial

Modern life, especially in the city, is fast paced and stressful. This environment can have negative physiological effects on the body from poor posture, movement habits and stress, opening it to injury. Restrictions and poor movement can be the root cause of chronic pain. A combination of Pilates, to re-learn efficient movement and re-align the body, together with manual, targeted myofascial release, will allow you to:

Explore and allow the body to find its equilibrium

Discover your potential to move with ease in a full range

Release into movement with Myofascial sessions

Overcome poor posture and habits contributing to pain

Rebalance the neural and motor systems

The Myofascial treatment is a gentle but effective method precisely identifying restrictions, then working with the body using a number of specialised techniques including specific joint work and visceral release. It can be used alone and can be very effective for many painful conditions including:

Shoulder & Neck Pain

Carpal Tunnel & RSI

TMJ & Jaw related pain

Scoliosis and postural issues

Injury & post operative recovery• Whiplash • Fibromyalgia

Richard has many years’ experience teaching Pilates training with renowned educators Helge Fisher and Kelly Kane, working from an anatomical, bio-mechanical and sensory approach. He has added to this with extensive study of the myofascial connections of the body gaining manual therapy skills in Structural Integration, Myofascial Release and the deeper bodywork of the Barral Institute. He sees many clients with chronic issues and combines movement and manual therapy, working inventively and intuitively with your body.

Client comment ” .. thank you for the 1:1 class. I was very impressed with the way you analysed me, felt the tension and the way you taught. Wow!”

David Canevaro

Osteopathy and Rehabilitation Pilates

Your Osteopath will carry out a case history with an examination using a highly developed sense of touch called palpation, to identify any points of weakness or strain throughout the body. Osteopaths use touch, manipulation and occasionally acupuncture / dry needling to diagnose and treat problems. They all have a background in sports massage and may also incorporate these skills into their treatments. You will then be given a suitable treatment plan which will include rehabilitation exercises and advice.

David Canevaro has trained as a Pilates instructor with Polestar Pilates and the Australian Physiotherapy Pilates Institute. His approach is essentially a fusion between Osteopathy and Pilates. Pilates is a method of exercise to help develop your core strength, flexibility, body awareness, balance and postural alignment.

David Canevaro is registered with the General Osteopathic Council. Should you wish to claim through your private healthcare insurance, please check the terms with your provider first.

Liz Bussey

Craniosacral Therapy

What is Craniosacral Therapy?

It is a gentle hands-on therapy that supports the body’s natural goal to find optimal health and postural balance.

Cranial Sacral therapy was developed in the early 1900s from the findings of a US Osteopath, Dr William Sutherland. These findings show that, in health, all living tissue (muscles, bones, nerves, fluid) express a subtle rhythmic motion, which has been called Primary Respiration. The full and balanced expression of Primary Respiration is fundamental to good health. However, factors such as accidents, injuries, stresses, toxicity or emotional problems can affect Primary Respiration and therefore health.

A Cranial Sacral therapist is trained to listen to this rhythmic motion and identify areas of stress or strain in the body. They then, using Cranial Sacral skills, provide an opportunity for the body to recognise and release inertial patterns, invite restoration of Primary Respiration and therefore a healthier state of being.

During a session, usually, you will lie fully clothed on a treatment table and experience the light touch of the therapist’s hands. You may feel a deep relaxation and possibly become aware of heat, tingling, pulsations or other sensations.

Cranial Sacral Therapy is suitable for all ages.

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Liz Bussey is one of the UK’s leading bodywork therapists and international health and fitness presenters. She is a Biodynamic Cranial Sacral therapist and also a Senior Educator for Polestar Pilates UK, with over 15 years of bodywork experience. Liz works at Moss Pilates studio in London, and runs a Pilates rehabilitation clinic in Lewes, East Sussex. She is a qualified Reiki and NLP practitioner and has completed Trager level one with Dean Juhan and stage one of the KMI Structural Integration training with Tom Myers. Liz’s unique facilitation techniques allow a wide age group to experience personal change in all areas of their life, from physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. She has attended trainings in Shadow Work, Transactional Analysis and is currently attending A Somatic Trauma Therapy Training with Babette Rothchild.